It wasn’t a coincidence that country singer Shania Twain was the guest judge on FOX-TV’s “American Idol” Tuesday night.

Like her biggest hit, it could be said of the contestants chosen from Chicago auditions, “Don’t Impress Me Much.”

Nazareth’s Tyler Grady, who got a ticket to Hollywood last week, is looking better all the time.

Two possible contenders came out of the show: John Park, 20, a deep-voiced college student from Northrock, Ill., and Katelyn Epperly, 19, a West Des Moines, Iowa, student who voice was good but may be better if she wasn’t singing tripe like Duffy’s “Syrup and Honey.”

The biggest reason not to like Epperly is that her performance was prefaced by a schlocky sob story about her parents divorcing and this being the first event in her life that her parents weren’t supporting her together.

My guess is the divorce started over a fight about the huge tattoo the barely legal Epperly had on her back.

Tyler Grady

That first choice started a detestable trend of contestants being weighed more on their sob stories than their talent. Funny how Epperly’s mother, so sullen and near tears before her daughter got her ticket to Hollywood, looked like she suddenly was up for a trip to the local singles bar afterward.

Page Dechausse, a college student from Morris, Ill., was revealed to be an asthmatic who sang a badly affected, unnatural-voiced version of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.” Judge Simon Cowell quickly dismissed her as “A little bit indulgent” and voted no, but Twain and now-stranger-than-Paula-Abdul judge Kara DioGuardi persuaded judge Randy Jackson to go alongwith them and put Dechausse through.

She took a suck on her asthma inhaler just for good measure.

Some iffy contestants who got tickets were Charity Vance, a 16-year-old Arkansas high school student who did a serviceable-but-not-Idol version of “Summertime,” and Angela Martin, 28, a Chicago singer who has been to Hollywood on two prior seasons only to be rejected. There should at least be a three-strikes rule.